Lincoln used the Declaration to attack slavery.
There is certainly an environmental ethic in the Islamic faith, but those behind the declaration need to consider the challenges facing Muslims, mosques and Islamic schools – it's easy enough to have sustainable principles, but putting them into practice is much harder.
Wood Turner, Vice President of Sustainability Innovation at Stonyfield Farm and one of the key drivers behind the Declaration, attributes this to not wanting to detract from the message by incorporating prescriptive elements into the text.
"The purpose of the game in many ways is to tell the stories behind the grievances articulated in the declaration and to link them to the rights articulated 13 years later in the Bill of Rights," says Gabe Turow, a game designer and the project manager for Portrait of a Tyrant.
But behind the declaration of unity and a desire to honour a peace deal signed last year, there is deep panic at the country's desperate financial position.
After the last presidential election in 2009, tens of thousands of angry voters took to the streets for months to claim fraud was behind the declaration of Ahmadinejad as the winner.
One of the groups behind the declaration, Germany's Max Planck Society, is now changing its employment contracts to require staff to return the copyright of their work to the society.
It is the Enlightenment world view in a nutshell, the faith behind the Declaration of Independence's shocking idea that governments are instituted to preserve the God-given rights of their citizens.
As United Nations Member States are poised to adopt a new, universal development agenda with the aim of "leaving no one behind", the Doha Declaration is particularly relevant this year and more so, is the call for doing what the international community finds harder: moving to action.
